From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm Martine Powers.

It's Monday, August 9.

The Olympics are finally over.

Later in the show, we will talk to our Tokyo Biori Chief about what we learned about hosting

Olympics in the time of COVID.

I think it will be remembered for just the sheer weirdness because of the fact that it

was held in the pandemic.

But before that, there's a new climate report out today, and the UN Secretary General

is calling it a quote, code red for humanity.

The report clearly shows that we are leaving the consequences already of climate change

everywhere.

So today, this international group of scientists organized by the UN released its first assessment

of sort of where we are in climate science.

What do we know about the state of the planet since before the Paris Agreement?

Brady Dennis reports on climate science for the post, and he's been covering this pretty

dire assessment of how the climate is already changing because of human activity.

We will experience further and more and multiple changes that increase with every additional

beat of warm.

We should be prepared for that.

You know, the report makes clear that we're sort of pushing the planet into an unprecedented

state, was the word that the scientists use.

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